[Harp-L] My once a year Movie date

[Robert Bonfiglio <bon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Dave Fertig wrote:
> Bear with me: I "work" at a wine shop 2 days a week.  It's amazing  
> how 12 people often have 12 different perceptions of the same wine.

1st an aside:
Don't you mean 12 different positions on the same wine; and most like  
second position, but a few like 3rd position and a few first, and the  
guy who liked 12th was out there.


I did play a neat Movie date yesterday which required  a lot of  
reading and had some nasty fast corner switch grace notes.  Very much  
Rota or Maraconi type music, so much so that in one take I suggested,  
stupid me, that the whole thing would sound great in octaves.  So we  
ended up rerecording 4 takes all in octaves!  Last time I make that  
suggestion.

Good thing I brought minor tuned blues harps because he wanted  
nothing but a blues harp minor chord pad like a harmonetta in one  
pass.  He did let me solo over that but it was not the sound he was  
looking for; I have a feeling the director may go for the version  
with the solo.

Anyhow, rule number one in the studio is give them what they want,  
especially if they are good composers and arrangers, and then just  
nudge them along to the possibilities of the instrument.

I would like to also thank Richard Hunter for the recommendation!

Harmonically yours,

Robert Bonfiglio
http://www.robertbonfiglio.com